Saturday, March 27, 2010

I received a sweet email yesterday all the way from Germany, Anita over at My Country Cottage Garden wanted to share with me how she was inspired by the Paris pillow that I made.

Anita's Vintage Paris Pillow

Hers turned out beautiful, I love the buttons and the rick rack that she added, she said that she printed directly onto the fabric. That's a technique I've been wanting to try. I can't wait to see what else she comes up with.

She has a very lovely blog with lots of great eye candy, so please pay her a visit Here

Sunday, March 21, 2010

First I would like to say congrats to Donna over at Funky Junk Interiors for winning last week. She's one of my favorite bloggers, very talented, and sweet too. I would also like to thank everyone that voted for me, I'm extremely grateful and happy for coming in second to Miss Donna.

Each week we are allowed to interpret our themes and for this week's white theme I wanted to add just a hint of my favorite color to the mix.

The vintage sign was made using this window I found at a garage sale for a $1.00.

I came up with the design and had my local copy center blow it up to the size I needed and because I wanted a black and white image it only cost 1.50 for the copy.

I applied Mod Podge medium to the backside of the glass, the same type of technique you would use if you were decoupaging a glass plate.

I smoothed out the bubbles, trimmed it to size and added a different handle to tie in with the black in the print.

I love how it turned out and love even more that it only cost $2.50 to make.

Friday, March 12, 2010

After a 15 year career in nursing, Terri decided to pursue her life-long passion of wanting to learn to paint. She completed undergraduate studies at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Atlanta, Georgia.

Sunday, March 7, 2010

With this week’s category being catalog inspired, I couldn't resist doing an anthropologie inspired item.

We were to be inspired by something we might see in a particular catalog, I did not want to do a copycat version of one particular item, but I believe I could see a monogram stand like this in their store.

I love to repurpose things into something new, this is what the garage sale frame looked like when I bought it.

The black velvet fabric was in bad shape and it just didn't fit in my color scheme, but I thought I could change it up a bit. For the base, I glued a wood block onto a wood craft plaque and drilled a wood dowel into the center. I applied a cream color base coat followed by a blackish-brown color, then distressed it to look old.

For the frame I applied a base coat of the same cream color and aged it using a dark brown paint, the wiped off some of the paint to create more depth.

For the cursive letter "T" I used SHRINKY DINKS, then painted the letter to look like it was metal. For for a couple of bucks of materials, I have a custom Monogram "Anthropolgie" inspired stand.

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Thanks to Jeanine over at One Cheap B*itch Blog for awarding me with Kreativ Blogger Award.

Here are the rules:1.Post the award. 2.Thank and mention the person who gave you the award.3.Pass the award on to seven bloggers whom you think embody the spirit of the Kreativ Blogger Award.4.Name seven things about yourself that others don't know.5.Don’t forget to notify your seven Kreativ Bloggers about their AWARD and post links to their blogs.Here are my seven bloggers:

Wow it's really hard to only pick 7 bloggers, there are so so many that I love.

1.Terri from Dimples and Dragonflies, talk about a gifted artist, I just love all her paintings and she's as sweet as she is talented.

3. Karen from Graphics Fairy, Karen is so generous sharing all of her great graphics for free, many projects in blogland have been possible because of her.

4. All the gang over at Alchemy Junk, great new blog, check out some of their neat projects. (Just in case anyone was wondering, no I'm not trying to get brownie points from Stephanie at SYTYCD, LOL, I really do like their blog.)

5. Tracey from French Larkspur, amazing photography on her blog, she is very good at what she does.

6. Marian fromMiss Mustard Creations, I love all her projects, she's a great decorative painter and decorator. My very first comment I received on my blog was from her and she's given me a ton of encouragement. Thanks Marian.